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| Winged VoX | May 6 2004, 10:34 PM Post #1 |
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For any TechTV fans, this was reported on Leo LaPorte’s blog. http://leo.typepad.com/ "I've just learned that G4 has fired the entire staff of TechTV. Per the WARN Act (governing plant closings) all the employees of TechTV have been given 60 days notice. The San Francisco operation will be shuttered by July. 100 of the existing jobs will be posted for those willing to relocate to LA. Outgoing COO, Joe Gillespie will say good-bye to the troops tomorrow. Incoming CEO Charles Hirschorn will say hello (and good-bye) on Monday. No word on which shows G4 will keep or which hosts will be kept on." NO WAY! This is so unbelievably moronic! Why in the world would they want to do this?! How can they just think of firing the whole staff?! Do they realize that they were the force behind TechTV?! Do they realize what they are losing?! I knew there was stuff with going on with Comcast, G4, and TechTV as of late, but this is…UGH! First it was the whole issue with Leo. That was dealt with and he came back. NOW THIS! What the h*ll are they thinking?! Why not just keep everyone and relocate like they want to?! I am very upset about this. During my whole semester off from college, I started to watch TechTV more than anything that I have ever watched. I used to only watch it back then for Extended Play, which is now X-Play. From X-Play, I slowly picked up on watching the rest of the shows like Unscrewed, Call For Help, The Screen Savers, Tech Live, and a whole list of the rest. Are they even going to keep these shows? I’m sorry, but G4 is not even that great of a channel. When I did watch that channel, they had very few shows and not only that, they would replay them SO many times. Yes, TechTV replays their shows every now and then, but that’s because they make so much fresh and new episodes for every show they do. They do reruns to take a break. As I was saying, I watched TechTV a lot during my time off. When nothing else good was on, TechTV would be playing on my TV even if I weren’t even paying much attention to it. Sure, I didn’t learn all the tech stuff I probably could have because of these shows, but I was entertained nonetheless. I did learn things and used them. I grew to enjoy these people on a daily basis and now they’re all to be gone… I don’t know…I could go on about this, but…it’s just so unexpected of G4/Comcast to do this or to even consider this. Sure, during mergers, jobs are lost, but why would they fire the entire staff of whom they merged with? To weed out those who don’t want to relocate? Bunch of bull. I don’t know. I bet things will be bleak for a while around the TechTV studios. I’m going to keep watching and looking for new information on this as time goes on. Hopefully, the feedback they get from fans will help out with the situation like it did when Leo was temporarily fired. I'm sure there's more I can say about this, but I'm all flustered to keep going right now. You can check out the link to Leo’s blog and see all of the responses from other fellow fans of TechTV. To all at TechTV; Leo, Patrick, Kevin, Sarah, Dan, Adam, Morgan, Roger, Chris, Jessica, Stephanie, and the whole TechTV Crew…I wish you all the best in all this. |
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| Winged VoX | May 6 2004, 10:51 PM Post #2 |
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Here's an online petition to help save TechTV. I'm number 12. Please sign if you care. This is a serious matter, so no joking around here. Save TechTV Petition Here's another one. The more, the better. Reverse G4/Comcast Decision to Fire Entire Staff of TechTV |
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| Yo-Tai-Keizuke | May 7 2004, 01:43 AM Post #3 |
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Glad to see i was #119. While don't watch TechTv as often as i used to, if i happen to catch any of their shows, i'll watch it. Especially X-Play which is the only reason i became involved with TechTv's other programms. I'm sad to hear what happend. I can't believe it. Now what i don't understand is how come G4 fired all the staff from TechTv? Isn't TechTv and G4 seperate channels? |
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| Angel | May 7 2004, 01:50 AM Post #4 |
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i signed it arnell...mergers suck when they do stuff like this...i've seen it happen too often i dont get TechTV, but what i HAVE watched, shows like Screen Savers, X-Play, and Tech Live, are really great... oh, what is G4? a cable company, or a channel? jus wondering... |
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| Winged VoX | May 7 2004, 02:07 AM Post #5 |
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Yeah, they are separate channels. Comcast, who owns G4, bought out TechTV. Or if you wish, merged with them. People think that they only merged to get TechTV's fanbase. Great job there, Comcast. A lot of the hardcore TechTV viewers have grown to love the personalities that TechTV have brought to us such as Leo LaPorte, Morgan Webb, etc. And to answer Angelo's question, G4 is a channel available in select markets much like TechTV. It was a channel dedicated to only videogames, which I thought was cool. But they reran too much of the same thing on a daily basis, which is one reason I stopped watching them. A channel that was made for only videogames 24 hours a day couldn't compare to just a thrity minute gaming show like X-Play. Sad. I put another petition I found with the other one. I'm sure there are similar ones out there, but those are the only two I came across so far. I just want to see how TechTV themselves will address this. Like if they announce it on one of their shows like Call For Help, The Screen Savers, or Tech Live. So watching these shows or anything on TechTV in the coming days should be worth watching (although it usually is). It would be interesting to see if they address this at all in the next few days. They might not since there was an issue of Leo getting fired temporarily. Thanks to petitions like these, he was brought back. Hopefully, this does the same. |
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| Deleted User | May 7 2004, 11:04 PM Post #6 |
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NOOOO!!!! dis is stupid..why are they firing all of them!!?!?!?...who am i gonna get help from now dat Screen Savers is gone??..and where am i gonna watch good Anime?!?!..makes me wanna cry :cry: ---splitty |
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| AMR | May 8 2004, 12:51 AM Post #7 |
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sorry i was # 29 I forgot to reply here last night.. I like that Channel.. Also 1256 Total Signatures |
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| Winged VoX | May 8 2004, 12:02 PM Post #8 |
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Each of those petitions I posted has over 1300 signatures each. It only took less than a day for each to get over 1000. |
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| Winged VoX | May 10 2004, 05:13 PM Post #9 |
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For those who wish to learn more about the merger, check this link. G4techTV The separate home links of techtv.com and g4.com basically lead to this for anyone who wanted information. Plus, today the merging of programs has started. After the repeats of X-Play (TechTV) in the afternoon, they aired an episode of Filter (G4). So far I don't mind since Filter is taking the spot of Robot Wars, which I barely watched. Plus Filter was one of the only shows I would ever watch on G4. More programs of TechTV and or just the reruns of certain shows that take up certain time slots will most likely be replaced by more G4 programs. More info as it comes. |
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| AMR | May 10 2004, 05:43 PM Post #10 |
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why didn't we do this for MVH? |
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| Angel | May 11 2004, 12:25 AM Post #11 |
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we sorta did, lil bro. I-channel sent out surveys. i guess just not enough people watched that channel or something. THAT STUNK! MVH RULED!!!! |
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| Winged VoX | May 13 2004, 12:42 AM Post #12 |
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Update: G4TechTV will offer the following shows: From TechTV: Anime Unleashed, Body Hits, Eye Drops, Fresh Gear, Future Fighting Machines, Invent This, Nerd Nation, Robot Wars, The Screen Savers, Thunderbirds, Unscrewed, & X-Play From G4: Arena, Cheat!, Cinematech, Electric Playground, Filter, G4TV.com, Icons, Judgment Day, Players, Portal, Pulse, Sweat More details and the offical press release can be found here: G4techTV +krose (credits to Kevin Rose) *Two shows I see missing from TechTV that I am sad to see go away are Tech Live and Call For Help. Wonder what the Tech Live crew (Jessica Corbin and others) and the Call For Help crew (Leo Laporte...Unlce Leo, Cat Schwartz, Roger Change...The Notorious R.O.G, and others) will be doing. Leo has lots of things he does anyways like a radio show and Cat will soon be having a column of her own in Stuff magazine (a spread of her will be in one issue soon). And why are they bringing back Thunderbirds? It was cool and okay, but it's been off their programming for a long while now. Replace Thunderbirds and Robot Wars with Call For Help and Tech Live and it's all good for me in the TechTV line up. Two shows I never liked on G4 that they're bringing over are Portal and Sweat. Ugh... |
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| Angel | May 13 2004, 12:52 AM Post #13 |
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G4TechTV? is that wut it is called now? |
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